November 25—April 2, 2014

Studio Arts Building

The exhibition traces the development of American landscape design by analyzing a group of landscapes that were chosen for their significance, state of preservation, and chronological and geographical distribution.

February 4—May 10, 2014

Learning Commons in W.E.B. Du Bois Library

The Marriott Meals is a core course within the HTM program in which students have the opportunity to manage the restaurant with a team of student employees. Students deliver first-class dining experiences to guests for lunches and dinners. All of the menu items are made fresh-to-order.

April 1, 20145:00 pm-9:00 pm

Hampshire Dining Commons

We are teaming up with the Newman Center and Whole Children in Hadley MA to host their chorus for a performance. Whole Children is a grassroots organization founded by parents of children with special needs.

April 2, 20144:00 pm

Commonwealth Honors College Building, Events Hall- East

Representatives from the Center for Women and Community (CWC) will be on site to give information to attendees of the International Coffee Hour about the services that the CWC provides, answer questions, and provide students with information about volunteer opportunities.

April 3, 20144:00 pm-5:00 pm

All Campus

The UMass Arts Extension Service and Art Department welcome the second 2014 “Art Star” Visiting Artist Lecture speaker, painter and sculptor Summer Wheat to speak on her work, her creative process, and how she found success in the field.

April 3, 20144:30 pm

Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

Did you know that 58% of college students say they don't know how to help someone who is experiencing relationship violence? This workshop will help build an understanding of relationship violence and provide you with the tools to educate others and address violence.

April 3, 20147:00 pm-9:00 pm

Crampton Hall, Basement

Efforts to achieve a “two-state solution” have finally collapsed; the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. Ali Abunimah, author of the new book "The Battle for Justice in Palestine," will offer a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future.

April 3, 20148:00 pm

Mahar Auditorium

In this study, Dr. Steven investigates the relationship between the first-in port choice by carriers on importers’ choice of ports. Further, they investigate possible moderating effects of cargo value and import frequency on this hypothesized relationship that puts any findings in context.

April 4, 20141:25 pm-2:15 pm

Fine Arts Center, 44

Please join us for a Talk by Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s Studies & Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has written widely on methodological and methods issues, including the role of technology and emergent methods in social research.

April 4, 20144:00 pm-7:00 pm

Bowker Auditorium

This spring's Sinauer Associates Distinguished Scientist Lecture brings renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant to UMass for their lecture titled, "40 Years of Evolution on the Galapagos."

April 4, 20148:00 pm

Student Union Ballroom

Art Keene is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at UMass Amherst. During his 34 years at UMass he founded and directed two academic service-based leadership programs: the Citizen Scholars Program and the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation.

April 6, 201412:00 pm

McGuirk Alumni Stadium

April 6, 201412:00 pm

Earl Lorden Field

The Second Wind, a Renaissance Wind Ensemble, in their first performance at the UMass Renaissance Center, will present "Music from the Workshop of Andrea Gabrieli," a compilation of Renaissance polyphony focusing on the music of Andrea Gabrieli and composers who studied with him.

Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

April 6, 20148:00 pm

Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

Professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (sociology) presents the final talk in this semester's Faculty Colloquium Series for the Center for Public Policy and Administration. His talk is titled “Identifying Equal and Unequal Opportunity Workplaces.”

April 7, 201412:15 pm-1:15 pm

Thompson Hall, 620

Susan Metz is a nationally recognized leader in catalyzing change in academia regarding women in science. Her lecture will address how unintended bias affects hiring, retention and promotion of women faculty and will identify research-based strategies to engender an inclusive and productive work environment.

April 7, 20144:00 pm

Student Union, Ballroom

As a collaborative artist team, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy use sculpture, installation, kinetics, and video to create works that occupy many terrains: exhaustive categorization, recreation and reenactment, automation, miniaturization, remote viewing and speculative modeling.

April 7, 20145:00 pm-7:15 pm

Commonwealth Honors College Building, Events Hall

The Freedom Seder is a multicultural and interfaith celebration based on the Exodus themes of the Jewish Passover Seder, but commemorating the Civil Rights Movement and other modern liberation struggles.

April 9, 20143:30 pm

Morrill Science Center, 134 (speaker will present remotely)

Anna Strowe, visiting fellow at the UMass Renaissance Center, will discuss her current work, transcribing and translating Americo di Firenze's Istoria della Fine del Mondo, a late seventeenth-century manuscript in the Center's clolection written by a relatively unknown monk.

April 9, 20144:00 pm

Mullins Center, Massachusetts Room

Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story​, directed by Robert Gardner, tells the extraordinary story of WWII British secret agent, “Spy Princess” Noor Inayat Khan, whose heroism transcended race and religion as she risked her life in the French Resistance.

April 10, 201410:00 am-3:00 pm

Machmer Hall, Lawn

Remarkable, fantastical, and a little bit strange — the tale of Peter Pan has captivated people for over 100 years. UMass Theater is thrilled to be part of that legacy of theater magic in its production of J.M. Barrie's original play.

Rand Theater

The Department of Economics and Undergraduate Economics Club (UEC) present the 10th Annual Undergraduate Debate. Two teams of students will debate the topic: Is protection of intellectual property necessary 'to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'?

Memorial Hall

April 10—April 12, 2014 8:00 pm

This conference on the history of the 1970s-1980s organization Science for the People (SftP) and its implications for science activism today brings together veteran members of the organization along with other scientists, Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, science activists, and students.

Earl Lorden Field

April 13, 20141:00 pm

McGuirk Alumni Stadium

Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman focuses on UC Berkeley during a period of economic crisis in his epic study of the life of an institution: its rules, principles, and ideas, and their connection to the lives of people who realize it, manage it, and depend on it.

April 13, 20145:00 pm

Mullins Center

The discussion will focus on Massachusetts’ status as a leader on green policies and clean energy practices, including its passage of the Green Communities Act, the Green Jobs Act, as well as the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008.

April 14, 20144:00 pm

Bowker Auditorium

April 14, 20147:30 pm

Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

Witness amazing feats of creativity and scholarship! A variety of original works by Humanities and Fine Arts undergraduates will be on display for the entire campus community to view, from poetry and prose to music performances, artwork, animation, and more.

April 16, 20147:00 pm

McGuirk Alumni Stadium

For over ten years, the award-winning Body Politics has been a space for celebration, support, empowerment, healing and creativity for women of color to embrace who they are, their bodies, and their experiences and to speak against all forms of oppression.

April 16—April 17, 2014 7:30 pm

Campus Center, 174-76

A collective cinematic love letter to Chris Marker captures the notoriously private director. And, a film composed of photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his travel in the form of a voiceover conversation.

April 21, 2014

April 21—April 24, 2014 8:30 am-12:00 pm

Boyden Gymnasium

For the past three years, representatives at UMass Amherst joined the YWCA in their “Stand Against Racism” (SAR) movement, which aspires to eliminate racism by bringing together like-minded organizations, holding educational workshops, and engaging participants in awareness campaigns through social media outlets.

April 22—April 25, 2014

All Campus

The 2014 Dose-Response, Preconditioning: Adaptive Responses in Biology and Medicine will explore the rapidly emerging area of Preconditioning, its biomedical implications, its dose response features and its underlying mechanisms.

April 22—April 23, 2014 8:00 am-3:00 pm

In this lecture, Dr. Mandel will draw from the literature on welfare state policies, gender, and class in order to stress the importance of class distinction for understanding how welfare state policies affect the life chances of women.

Sortino Field Softball Complex

April 22, 20143:00 pm

Earl Lorden Field

The Eureka! program was launched with the support of the College of Natural Science at UMass Amherst. Eureka! is an informal educational program serving middle and high school girls through STEM education, sports and adventure programming and personal development programs such as media literacy.

April 22, 20144:00 pm

Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

The Department of Nutrition presents the 26th Annual Virginia A. Beal Lecture and Dinner. This year’s program is titled “From Neighborhood to Nation: Changing Policies to Improve Nutrition and Food Security.”

April 22, 20147:00 pm-9:00 pm

New Africa House, 203

Join the UMass Amherst Community as we celebrate the 44th Earth Day. This year's Earth Day theme at UMass Amherst is "Climate Change: Building a Diverse Movement for Environmental Justice and Sustainability.” The campus community will be engaging in meaningful campus reflection and action toward building more diversity and inclusivity into the sustainability community here and more broadly.

April 22, 20147:00 pm-9:30 pm

Mahar Auditorium

In recognition of the outstanding contributions of our students of the greater UMass Amherst community, the Center for Student development is hosting our Annual Awards Ceremony to acknowledge all the hard work our students, staff, and faculty do on campus.

April 23, 20144:00 pm-7:00 pm

Police Department

The UMass Renaissance Center's Renaissance Wednesday Lecture Series concludes for the semester with Center curator David Katz's discussion and display of items recently added to the collection. You'll be able to see close up and, in many cases, touch, the items being discussed.

April 23, 20144:30 pm-6:30 pm

Herter Hall, 301

Starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York, the film is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Procession to Calvary,” focusing on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in the 1564 painting, set against a backdrop of religious persecution in Flanders.

April 23—April 25, 2014 7:30 pm-9:30 pm

Curtain Theater

April 23, 20148:00 pm

Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

UMass Amherst and Five College students, faculty, and staff are invited to TechTalks, a series of events exploring a wide range of technology topics, from creative uses of technology, innovation and sustainability in IT to the new ways technology is shaping our future.

April 24, 20141:00 pm-2:00 pm

Commonwealth Honors College Building, Events Hall East (160E)

Representatives of Fulbright New York, the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, this year's Fulbright winners and the Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA) will provide an overview of the Fulbright program and the application process.

April 24, 20142:00 pm-4:00 pm

Commonwealth Honors College Building, Events Hall

For the second consecutive year, over 350 graduating seniors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will receive an extra special sendoff when the Award-Winning UMass Dining Services fetes them at the White House-style "state dinner," replete with four-course dinner, presidential red carpet and an honor guard of ROTC cadets.

April 26, 201411:00 am-3:00 pm

Northeast Residential Area, Quad

An annual performance showcase produced and directed by Frederick Omega Pye, in his seventh year as Assistant Band Director/Visual Coordinator for the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band.

Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

April 27, 20147:30 pm

Fine Arts Center Bezanson Recital Hall

Described by The New Yorker as “hyper kinetic” and “exceptional,” the celebrated Lines Ballet of San Francisco performs exhilarating works that meld classical Western ballet with a diverse set of cultural traditions.

April 28, 2014 6:00 pm-8:00 pmMay 2, 2014 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Reverend James Lawson, Jr., Visiting Faculty, Civil Discourse and Social Change initiative, California State University, Northridge, speaks on "Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?" Visiting Faculty, Civil Discourse and Social Change initiative, California State University, Northridge American Civil Rights Leader Where do we go from here: Chaos or Community?

Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies

April 30, 20145:00 pm

Sortino Field Softball Complex

23 teams of mechanical and industrial engineering seniors will demonstrate prototypes of their capstone projects. The event is part of a course called “MIE 495 Senior Design Project,” taught by professor Sundar Krishnamurty.

April 30, 20147:00 pm

Student Union Art Gallery

Dive into a vivid, rarely-seen world of rugged fishermen and jungle laboratories, of exotic bacteria and teeming coral reefs, of Asian outsourcing and broken dreams before testing your nerve with some radical solutions for raising shrimp right here at home.